Category Archives: Travels

My Street

(Kurt Nilsen) Sometimes things just happen, call it ‘serendipity’. I’d been travelling up Manchester on a weekly basis for over two years, taking the nine o’clock Virgin train from London Euston and arriving in Manchester Piccadilly just after eleven. A major refurbishment of Manchester’s Victoria Station (Making Victoria Posh) has meant no effective tram service […]

One step beyond

Another one of those “where were you when” days occurred forty years ago this week, and yes I can remember where I was. During the Apollo 11 mission my family and I were on holiday in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight , throughout the week my tiny transistor radio was never far from my side. As […]

Saturday Gigs

While visiting Sri Lanka I managed to hook up with Phill Morton and his wife Anne. Phill and I were best mates back in the late seventies and early eighties in Sheffield. They were great times to be young guys around town in Sheffield; the music scene was booming, with bands like the Human League, ABC […]

This is Tomorrow Calling

I guess it was a combination of the travel, the time and the exotic Dubai architecture but it occurred to me “we’re in the future”.

Ca Plane Pour Moi

In October 2008 I was asked to attend a conference in Brussels, my guvnor was going to be on holiday and the conference looked as though it would be useful. The middle day of the trip was gong to be our wedding anniversary so we agreed that Val would come with me (at me expense […]

Updating this site

I worked from home yesterday, which means that I didnt have the long hot haul home. The TV schedules for Monday and Friday evenings comprise ninety minutes of soap operas. So while my good lady was catching up on the events in Weatherfield and Walford, I took the opportunity to add a few more been there […]

Burma (Myanmar)

We learn about the hierarchy of needs but never really experience it.

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